Where does “tanka” come from?

tanka (English) comes from Japanese 短歌, from Middle Chinese 短 — short.

tanka (English): A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7,...

Definitions

  1. A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7,...

Ancestry of “tanka”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese短歌tanka; a form of Japanese verse in five lines of...
2Middle Chinese短short

Words derived from “tanka”

Every word from Middle Chinese 短 →Every word from Japanese 短歌 →